SPORTS CULTURE=== Mike D MichaelW93 Christian N OVERVIEW: Sports have managed to affect the hearts and minds of all the nations of the world, they have captured the minds and hearts of millions offering inspiration, hope and a way for change in the world. The following videos show the power of some of the most inspirational moments.
The previous video showed the power over emotions that sports hold in cultures.
This would exemplify the inspiration sports provide.
The power of change that sports provide.
The Power of unity that Sports create.
Most of all the identity it allows the oppressed to display. (In this situation the Polish pole vaulter silenced the Soviet Russian home crowd after easily surpassing the world record in the 1980 Olympic games in Moscow. Although the odds were stacked against his favor due to the location of the olympics he was more then willing to express how he felt about the acts of the hosts. After his action the USSR requested the removal of his gold medal; however, the National Olympic Committee accepted the explanation offered by his coaches that the act was due to an involuntary muscle spasm.)
LINKS_ Austrailian Sports - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_in_Australia Australians are very passionate about there sports. In Australia their countries sports mainly consist of team sports which brings the country as a whole together. There most popular sport is the fierce game of Rugby. Rugby is a team sport which almost looks like the American game of football but involves no downs just continuous play. Since there is great weather in Australia, most sports are played outdoors, such as cricket. Cricket is the American form of baseball in Australia and involves a team and the game can go on for days and days until there is finally a winner. The Australians cricket team is ranked #1 in the world and they are proud of it. Like every other country in the world, there is soccer, but in Australia soccer is like soccer in America, not watched much and not really considered to be their strongest sport. The only one man sport the Australians really exceed in is golf. Due to the nice weather in Australia golfers are able to practice outdoors more than most people and most Australian golfers are quite good.
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There are several professional and semi-professional sport leagues in Australia. They include the Basketball A-League, the Australian Football League, the National Basketball League, National Rugby League, the National Wheelchair Basketball League, Super Rugby, the Women's National Basketball League, and the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League.
NBL- The National Basketball League of Australia consists of 9 teams, including one from New Zealand. The current oldest team in the league are the Adeliade 36ers and the reinging champion with the 2011 and 2012 titles are the New Zealand Breakers.
ABF- The Australian Baseball Federation is the national governing body of Baseball in Australia. Baseball is played in all the mainland states and territories, but it struggles for popularity due to the popularity of many other sports, including the comparable sport of cricket, in which Australia has always been one of the leading nations. School-aged children are generally guided toward a future in cricket, rather than baseball, especially in the private schooling system.
SACA- South Austrilian Cricket Association, formed in 1871 and is the state Cricket body in South Australia. It administers the Grade club cricket competition the South Australian Grade Cricket League, and the West End Southern Redbacks, South Australia's first-class cricket team. SACA's stated aim is to promote and develop the game of cricket in South Australia. The SACA has a membership base of more than 28,000 members and an elected Board who govern the activities of the Association.
Australian Football League System- The Australian football league system is a series of leagues for club football (soccer) in Australia, although in the top tier includes a team from New Zealand. The league system in Australia since 1977 has involved a one divisional league controlled by the national body and many leagues run within each state below. There isn't a defined structure of the Australian league system, mainly due to promotion and relegation between the leagues and divisions. The highest level of football in Australia is simple to find due to it being the only nationwide competition in the country. From the equivalent of tier 2 onwards, it is more difficult to judge as Tasmania and Northern Territory do not run a state wide competition, and Northern New South Wales Football is split into a different league to the NSW Premier League.
South Asian Sports- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_Games Most of the South Asian countries are in debt or have little money to spend on national teams. Most of their sports involve team sports with a ball such as soccer. Soccer is huge in these countries. Kids play at a young in age in the dirt parks and will play for hours on end. Kids cannot afford to buy baseballs or bats but when balls are donated to these countries they are over joyed. The South Asian men and women also train hard for Olympic events. In their region, they have what they call the South Asian Games, which involves some of the games they would experience at a national Olympic event, preparing them for it.
African Sports-http://wn.com/africasports/ Everybody will remember South Africa for holding the 2010 Fifa World Cup games, but will probably not remember how their team did in that event. Soccer is not their strongest suit, they do play it a lot and is the most popular sport in the country. The nations soccer team is called "Bafana Bafan," mean the boys. The second most popular sport is cricket. Cricket is huge for the young teens and grownups who love running around and enjoying a close game related to baseball. Other sports that Africa has are rugby, boxing, hockey, surfing, and running. Running is very big for Africans, two famous African runners are Edna Kiplagat and Gebre Gebremarian who participate in the New York City Marathon each year.
Native American Sports-http://www.nascsports.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Native_American_sports_and_games Native Americans have been around for years and in some cases are considered the founders of this country. Back in the day, the Native Americans did not have much but they used hunting as their first sport. They pretty much invented fishing and hunting for animals without even knowing it because they had to do it for survive. But, believe it or not, Native Americans enjoy the game of lacrosse and is most played in the tribes of the Atlantic seaboard and the Great Lakes. The goal was marked by 2 poles and the baskets were hand-made and the game was considered to be the finest and grandest of Indian tribe sports. The Native Americans also played Snow-Snake, which was played in the winter on the ice and involved the Indians pushing poles or an object across the ice to see whose would go furthest. Hoop and Pole is another game the Native Americans played and probably still play. The game was very basic, a hoop was rolled across the ground well men who stood far back tried to knock it over with arrows or spears. Mainly men participated in the sporting events while women held the house-hold responsibilities.
Central American Sports-http://www.cacso.org/ http://ezinearticles.com/?Sports-in-Central-America---Interesting-Facts-and-Figures!&id=4071670 http://www.globio.org/glossopedia/article.aspx?art_id=46 Central America has many different types of sports which vary from boxing all the too mens softball believe it or not. Alexis Arguello was one of the most successful Central American boxers, winning 6 world championships and became a face all over Latin America. In central American they also host the Pan American Games which involve sports such as cycling, fencing, shooting, weightlifting, and wrestling. In Central America they also play softball, track and field, swimming, volleyball, and taekwondo.
South American Sports-http://www.mapsofworld.com/south-america/sports/ http://wn.com/s/samericasports/ South America eats, breathes, and lives off of one sport, and that sport is, soccer. Soccer is huge for South American Countries, when a baby is born the first word they learn is soccer. But of course they have other sports in South American such as snowboarding, skiing, hiking, and polo. South America has also developed some of the greatest NBA players of today such as Manu Ginobili who plays on the first place San Antonio Spurs and is the star player. But no sport can beat soccer in these countries, they take so much pride in their soccer it is like football in America to them.
http://www.mapreport.com/subtopics/m/s.htm Middle Eastern Sports vary from all different kinds of sports that Americans would not think of playing. The Sports capital of the world in the Middle East is Dubai. In Dubai they have held the PGA Golf Tournament Classic, a numerous amount of Powerboat World Championships, Rugby Tournaments, and Horse Race Tournaments. They even have Quad Championships in their deserts which i found pretty interesting.
Middle Eastern Sports Culture: Due to the strictness of Islamic dress code for women many women in countries like Iran are having trouble finding independendence yet through archery they are starting to get a hold of some of the change in the world. For more in depth analysis of this go to: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/middle-east/101006/iran-women-islamic-clothing-archery
Much of the sports of the middle east are governed by the islamic faith as it is the dominant religion in the area. The Islamic faith is highly supportive of sports and believes it to be neccessary for the fitness and health of the mind a and body. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_sports
Although there are strict rules against the clothing required for sporting events in the middle east many of the nations strive to attempt to allow women to compete somehow as this article suggests. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4511680.stm
http://martial-arts-asia.blogspot.com/-Martial Arts
Martial arts has become a way of life throughout many of the Eastern Asian countries, such as China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand and many others. Several of these martial arts include karate originating from Japan, kung fu and wung chun from China, tae kwon do from South Korea, and Muay Thai from Thailand. All of these martials arts symbolize pwer, strength and unity within the Eastern Asian community and have spread to various parts of the world, and people from all cultures and walks of life have decided to take up these martial arts in order to become one with themselvs and also one with the culture.
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OVERVIEW:
Sports have managed to affect the hearts and minds of all the nations of the world, they have captured the minds and hearts of millions offering inspiration, hope and a way for change in the world. The following videos show the power of some of the most inspirational moments.
The Power of Sports on Prezi
The previous video showed the power over emotions that sports hold in cultures.
This would exemplify the inspiration sports provide.
The power of change that sports provide.
The Power of unity that Sports create.
Most of all the identity it allows the oppressed to display.
(In this situation the Polish pole vaulter silenced the Soviet Russian home crowd after easily surpassing the world record in the 1980 Olympic games in Moscow. Although the odds were stacked against his favor due to the location of the olympics he was more then willing to express how he felt about the acts of the hosts. After his action the USSR requested the removal of his gold medal; however, the National Olympic Committee accepted the explanation offered by his coaches that the act was due to an involuntary muscle spasm.)
LINKS_
Austrailian Sports - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport_in_Australia
Australians are very passionate about there sports. In Australia their countries sports mainly consist of team sports which brings the country as a whole together. There most popular sport is the fierce game of Rugby. Rugby is a team sport which almost looks like the American game of football but involves no downs just continuous play. Since there is great weather in Australia, most sports are played outdoors, such as cricket. Cricket is the American form of baseball in Australia and involves a team and the game can go on for days and days until there is finally a winner. The Australians cricket team is ranked #1 in the world and they are proud of it. Like every other country in the world, there is soccer, but in Australia soccer is like soccer in America, not watched much and not really considered to be their strongest sport. The only one man sport the Australians really exceed in is golf. Due to the nice weather in Australia golfers are able to practice outdoors more than most people and most Australian golfers are quite good.
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There are several professional and semi-professional sport leagues in Australia. They include the Basketball A-League, the Australian Football League, the National Basketball League, National Rugby League, the National Wheelchair Basketball League, Super Rugby, the Women's National Basketball League, and the Women's National Wheelchair Basketball League.
NBL- The National Basketball League of Australia consists of 9 teams, including one from New Zealand. The current oldest team in the league are the Adeliade 36ers and the reinging champion with the 2011 and 2012 titles are the New Zealand Breakers.
ABF- The Australian Baseball Federation is the national governing body of Baseball in Australia. Baseball is played in all the mainland states and territories, but it struggles for popularity due to the popularity of many other sports, including the comparable sport of cricket, in which Australia has always been one of the leading nations. School-aged children are generally guided toward a future in cricket, rather than baseball, especially in the private schooling system.
SACA- South Austrilian Cricket Association, formed in 1871 and is the state Cricket body in South Australia. It administers the Grade club cricket competition the South Australian Grade Cricket League, and the West End Southern Redbacks, South Australia's first-class cricket team. SACA's stated aim is to promote and develop the game of cricket in South Australia. The SACA has a membership base of more than 28,000 members and an elected Board who govern the activities of the Association.
Australian Football League System- The Australian football league system is a series of leagues for club football (soccer) in Australia, although in the top tier includes a team from New Zealand. The league system in Australia since 1977 has involved a one divisional league controlled by the national body and many leagues run within each state below. There isn't a defined structure of the Australian league system, mainly due to promotion and relegation between the leagues and divisions. The highest level of football in Australia is simple to find due to it being the only nationwide competition in the country. From the equivalent of tier 2 onwards, it is more difficult to judge as Tasmania and Northern Territory do not run a state wide competition, and Northern New South Wales Football is split into a different league to the NSW Premier League.
South Asian Sports- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Asian_Games
Most of the South Asian countries are in debt or have little money to spend on national teams. Most of their sports involve team sports with a ball such as soccer. Soccer is huge in these countries. Kids play at a young in age in the dirt parks and will play for hours on end. Kids cannot afford to buy baseballs or bats but when balls are donated to these countries they are over joyed. The South Asian men and women also train hard for Olympic events. In their region, they have what they call the South Asian Games, which involves some of the games they would experience at a national Olympic event, preparing them for it.
African Sports-http://wn.com/africasports/
Everybody will remember South Africa for holding the 2010 Fifa World Cup games, but will probably not remember how their team did in that event. Soccer is not their strongest suit, they do play it a lot and is the most popular sport in the country. The nations soccer team is called "Bafana Bafan," mean the boys. The second most popular sport is cricket. Cricket is huge for the young teens and grownups who love running around and enjoying a close game related to baseball. Other sports that Africa has are rugby, boxing, hockey, surfing, and running. Running is very big for Africans, two famous African runners are Edna Kiplagat and Gebre Gebremarian who participate in the New York City Marathon each year.
Native American Sports-http://www.nascsports.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Native_American_sports_and_games
Native Americans have been around for years and in some cases are considered the founders of this country. Back in the day, the Native Americans did not have much but they used hunting as their first sport. They pretty much invented fishing and hunting for animals without even knowing it because they had to do it for survive. But, believe it or not, Native Americans enjoy the game of lacrosse and is most played in the tribes of the Atlantic seaboard and the Great Lakes. The goal was marked by 2 poles and the baskets were hand-made and the game was considered to be the finest and grandest of Indian tribe sports. The Native Americans also played Snow-Snake, which was played in the winter on the ice and involved the Indians pushing poles or an object across the ice to see whose would go furthest. Hoop and Pole is another game the Native Americans played and probably still play. The game was very basic, a hoop was rolled across the ground well men who stood far back tried to knock it over with arrows or spears. Mainly men participated in the sporting events while women held the house-hold responsibilities.
Central American Sports- http://www.cacso.org/
http://ezinearticles.com/?Sports-in-Central-America---Interesting-Facts-and-Figures!&id=4071670
http://www.globio.org/glossopedia/article.aspx?art_id=46
Central America has many different types of sports which vary from boxing all the too mens softball believe it or not. Alexis Arguello was one of the most successful Central American boxers, winning 6 world championships and became a face all over Latin America. In central American they also host the Pan American Games which involve sports such as cycling, fencing, shooting, weightlifting, and wrestling. In Central America they also play softball, track and field, swimming, volleyball, and taekwondo.
South American Sports- http://www.mapsofworld.com/south-america/sports/
http://wn.com/s/samericasports/
South America eats, breathes, and lives off of one sport, and that sport is, soccer. Soccer is huge for South American Countries, when a baby is born the first word they learn is soccer. But of course they have other sports in South American such as snowboarding, skiing, hiking, and polo. South America has also developed some of the greatest NBA players of today such as Manu Ginobili who plays on the first place San Antonio Spurs and is the star player. But no sport can beat soccer in these countries, they take so much pride in their soccer it is like football in America to them.
Middle Eastern Sports- http://www.allvoices.com/Middle-East/sports-news
Ashley:
Women have recently gained more rights through sports
Major Sports:
http://www.mapreport.com/subtopics/m/s.htm
Middle Eastern Sports vary from all different kinds of sports that Americans would not think of playing. The Sports capital of the world in the Middle East is Dubai. In Dubai they have held the PGA Golf Tournament Classic, a numerous amount of Powerboat World Championships, Rugby Tournaments, and Horse Race Tournaments. They even have Quad Championships in their deserts which i found pretty interesting.
Middle Eastern Sports Culture:
Due to the strictness of Islamic dress code for women many women in countries like Iran are having trouble finding independendence yet through archery they are starting to get a hold of some of the change in the world. For more in depth analysis of this go to: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/middle-east/101006/iran-women-islamic-clothing-archery
Much of the sports of the middle east are governed by the islamic faith as it is the dominant religion in the area. The Islamic faith is highly supportive of sports and believes it to be neccessary for the fitness and health of the mind a and body. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_sports
Sports discrimination in the middle east is exspecially dominant amongst women . http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4751033.stm
Although there are strict rules against the clothing required for sporting events in the middle east many of the nations strive to attempt to allow women to compete somehow as this article suggests. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4511680.stm
Qatar will be the first ever Middle Eastern country to host the Soccer world cup showing the continuous growth in popularity of sports in the Middle East and the increasing athletic influence . http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/8176966/Qatars-hosting-of-the-2022-World-Cup-finals-is-Fifas-most-dangerous-move-yet.html
African Sports Culture:
This link offers many various venues to explore in African Athletics http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/sports.html
In south Africa many claim Rugby helped end apartheid the 1995 rugby world cup also inspired the film invictus . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Rugby_World_Cup
African Sports- http://wn.com/africasports/
Eastern Asia Sports- http://www.mapreport.com/subtopics/a/s.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Sport_in_Southeast_Asia
http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/snapshot/snapshot.asp?ticker=900110:K
In Eastern Asia, they try and stick to the extreme side of sports such as Mountain Biking in Cambodia, Whitewater River Rafting in the Philippines, Surfing in Indonesia, Tubing in Laos, and Base Jumping in Malaysia which involves you jumping off buildings almost touching the sky.
http://martial-arts-asia.blogspot.com/-Martial Arts
Martial arts has become a way of life throughout many of the Eastern Asian countries, such as China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand and many others. Several of these martial arts include karate originating from Japan, kung fu and wung chun from China, tae kwon do from South Korea, and Muay Thai from Thailand. All of these martials arts symbolize pwer, strength and unity within the Eastern Asian community and have spread to various parts of the world, and people from all cultures and walks of life have decided to take up these martial arts in order to become one with themselvs and also one with the culture.
http://www.memphiswomensrugby.com/Documents/Rugby%20Basics.pdf
http://sportinsociety.blogspot.com/2008/08/power-of-sports-on-society.html
http://pledgeco.com/2010/06/15/sports-can-have-a-great-impact-on-people-and-society/
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/section?content=a916752517&fulltext=713240928
Pro Athletes in America from around the world..__
http://www.nba.com/players/int_players_0708.html NBA
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/players/birthplace.php MLB
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/soccer/abroad.htm MLS